'Minecraft' now officially belongs to Microsoft — here's what you should know

Minecraft now belongs to the House that Bill Gates built, punching trees into wood blocks into tools into processors into Windows.

It’s official, today we welcome Mojang to the Microsoft Studios family. We're excited for the possibilities ahead w/the Minecraft community.

— Phil Spencer (@XboxP3) November 6, 2014​

Today's announcement is more or less a formality at this point; the acquisition was originally announced in mid-September for $2.5 billion (ironically, in 2012 Minecraft creator Notch joked he'd sell Mojang and "endorse your crap" for the then-ludicrous price of $2 billion).

But Minecraft is too important of a cultural phenomenon not to take a moment and acknowledge this momentous day. Here's everything you need to...

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